1. PREVENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN:
Why the story we tell ourselves about violence against women matters, and what happens next

2. WHAT IS A CAUSAL STORY? Smoking cigarettes Being less healthy
Lung disease
Death

3. CAUSAL STORY AND PREVENTION
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
Educating young people about risks of smoking
Taxing cigarettes
Smoking cessation programmes
Screening for smoking-related illnesses
Smoking ban
Treating smoking-related illnesses
Improving health of smokers e.g. Specialist maternity services

4. SO WHAT DOESN’T CAUSE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN?
Alcohol
Poverty
External stress
Mental illness
Poor relationship skills
Anger
Culture
Sexual frustration
Unwitting ignorance

5. SO WHAT CAUSES VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN?
Women’s inequality with men
Violence against women

6. THREE DOMAINS OF INEQUALITY
Care
Decision-making
Work

7. THE VALUE OF HOUSEHOLD WORK
£1.4tn
23% OF GDP, 2010

8. WHO DOES THE DOMESTIC (LEISURE) WORK?
Women: 26 hours
Men: hours

9. THE VALUE OF CHILDCARE
£343bn

10. WOMEN DO THE MAJORITY OF CARING
(At least) 59% of unpaid carers are women
74% of Carer’s Allowance claimants are women
Women are twice as likely to give up paid work in order to care.

11. THREE DOMAINS OF INEQUALITY
Care
Decision-making
Work

12. SEX AND POWER
3029

13. POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN SCOTLAND
35%
MSPs
34%
MPs
17%
MEPs
25%
Councillors

14. THREE DOMAINS OF INEQUALITY
Care
Decision-making
Work

15. THE LABOUR MARKET AND WOMEN
Pay gap
Occupational segregation
Glass ceiling
Men’s work / women’s work
Women in the boardroom
Inflexible working
Childcare
Discrimination
Pay and reward
Value

16. Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.
EQUALLY SAFE
Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.

17. HOW TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN?
Multiple levels
Individual
Relationship
Community
Society
Across sectors
Economy
Education
Health
Justice
Social security
Multiple time-frames
Short term (2-5 years)
Medium term (5-10 years)
Long terms ( years)

18. What is the difference between men and women’s experience?
GENDERED ANALYSIS
On what is the money spent?
Who benefits from the spend?
What are the differences in participation?
What are the differences in outcome?
What is the difference between men and women’s experience?
Women’s role as carer, domestic labourer, or provisioner
Women’s experience of men’s violence
Women’s lack of access to resources, including money, transport, time
Why is it different?
Gender disaggregated data
Gender competence in decision-makers or policymakers
Better gender mainstreaming
Policy or practice shift or increase in coherence
What needs to change?

19. Quotas on boards, in councils, and in the Scottish Parliament
CONCRETE CHANGE
Care
“Daddy months” of parental leave, provided on a use-it-or-lose-it-basis (UK Government)
Social care, social work, and health services provision should not be contingent on, or shaped around, assumed care roles of women
Representation
Quotas on boards, in councils, and in the Scottish Parliament
Parties and public bodies are required to publish equalities data about candidates, and board members
Skills & work
Early years curriculum has tackling gender stereotyping as one of its core outcomes
Social security system has individual payments for members of the household, supporting and entrenching women’s economic autonomy

20. Contact details
Emma Ritch Executive